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Target Tehran: Setting Up a New Chapter in the Fake “Global War on Terror”. Prof Anthony Hall

By Prof. Anthony J. Hall, July 05, 2025.

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The 2002 video above mentions a Canadian neocon speech writer named David Frum, the son of Barbara Frum, then a prominent public affairs host on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. David Frum became the subject of considerable attention due to his authorship of the reference to Iran, Iraq and North Korea as part of Bush’s “Axis of Evil” speech.

According to the words that Frum put in George Bush’s mouth, the three named countries including Iran “must never be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons.”

The echo reverberating between the fakes news of 2002 and the fake news of 2025 is quite pronounced

Frum teamed up in co-authoring a book with Richard Perle.

Perle took Frum under his wing as a core collaborator in developing the policies, actions, and interpretations that gave shape to the Global War on Terror. It seems these old neocon agendas are being resuscitated to accommodate the sudden extension of the US-Israel partnership into the conduct of the genocide against native Palestinians and now into the realm of the aggressive war aimed at destroying Iran as presently constituted.

Perle was instrumental in drafting in 1996 the Israeli report, A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm. The essence of this document was to encourage the new Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to overcome all obstacles standing in the way of Israel’s annexation of new territories and Israel’s assertions of added clout worldwide.

The Perle report indicated that these objectives should be reached through more aggressive engagement by the IDF in pre-emptive wars and in more aggressive interventions with the US government to solicit US military resources to serve Israel’s foreign policy objectives.

The goal was to find ways of encouraging the US government to elevate, elaborate and mobilize the US military apparatus more actively in order to become a more effective enforcer of Israeli dominance over Arab submission.

The Clean Break document can be seen as one part of a two-volume work. The second part of the project was written on behalf of a neocon consortium based in the United States. This large group of Zionist insiders was called the Project for the New American Century, PNAC. PNAC’s 2000 report is entitled Rebuilding America’s Defenses. Much like the Clean Break document, Rebuilding America’s Defenses presents a plea for a more energized era of US militarism to be exercised basically for the benefit of Israel.

PNAC’s wish list of military hardware, software and added personnel was put forward with the proviso that implementing the whole package would require the intervention of “something like a New Pearl Harbor.” A very compelling version of a new Pearl Harbor just happened to arrive right on time via the CIA’s fake jihadist delivery service. The traumatizing spectacle demolished the most prominent features of the World Trade Centre in Manhattan even as it pierced a narrow hole in the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

Almost immediately the US government and its related agencies sprung into action knowing exactly what to do as if implementing a pre-prepared plan, which is obviously what transpired. The attack on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon was accompanied shortly after 9/11 by anthrax assaults delivered by mail. The anthrax, it was subsequently discovered, came from the chemical weapons labs of the US government.

The recipients of the deadly anthrax included most prominently two US Senators who were not about to just rubber stamp large masses of government legislation and policies meant to kick start the Global War on Terror. Within less than a month the US Armed Forces put down boots on the ground in Afghanistan.

Much of the membership of PNAC were inducted into President Bush’s war cabinet. Some of the PNAC officials, including Richard Perle, were installed into new positions meant to direct the far-flung operations of a Global War on Terror. Such a war was not directed at a particular enemy but at an amorphous and open-ended condition labelled “terror.”

As explained by General Wesley Clark, a leading edge of this Global War on Terror was to be directed at seven Muslim-majority countries over a period of five years.

These countries were Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, and Sudan. The invasion of Iran was to be the culminating event of these US-led wars to advance the policy objectives of Israel.

See this.

The book by Frum and Perle: The title of the text captures the self-declared terror-fighting authors: how to end evil and win the war on terror.

Can terror be defeated in warfare where terror abounds?

According to Frum and Perle, one of the main routes to an end to evil lies in eliminating all the “mullahs” from leadership positions in the governance of Iran.

That is one of the keys to their plan for a “winning the War on Terror.” This same level of nonsense aimed at lowering the level of public discourse is now being delivered by Donald Trump in his inept quest to be recognized as the most pro-Israel US President ever. What a wrongheaded objective for the chief MAGA spokesman!

This essay is my third since the government of Israel and then the government of the United States initiated the invasion of Iran with two separate attacks in mid-June. One essay dealt, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, with the need for regime change directed at Israel in order to prevent it from existing in its current form.

The other essay dealt with several issues including the infiltration of Iran by agents of Israel including Mossad members.

It has been widely reported that some of these agents penetrated core elements of Iran’s governing institutions. This infiltration was integral to the process of the Israeli assassination of dozens of high-ranking Iranian military commanders and nuclear scientists in the course of the Israel’s Friday the 13th invasion of Iran.

In preparing this essay I integrated the reports of the new developments with the insights I gained from my reading of important essays by Thierry Meyssan. Meyssan outlined the deeper history and meaning of the infiltration by agents of the Israeli government into the inner workings of the Iranian government.

See this, this and this.

In recent days and weeks, Meyssan has been presenting a lot of new material giving more depth especially on the background of current controversies within Iran that go back to the early twentieth century. The author delves especially into the long term consequences flowing from the British governments role in creating a massive famine in Iran during the First World War. How many times has imperial Britain plundered local food supplies and much else besides, in order to feed and service its large overseas armies?

According to Meyssan’s account, Britain’s lethal assault on Iran’s food supply caused several millions of premature deaths reducing the country’s population by about one-quarter. The legacy of this travesty is that many Iranian retain deep resentments towards Britain, a polity that seems to have earned even more animosity in Iran than Israel. For many Iranians Britain, even more than Israel, epitomizes the dark legacy of imperialism.

See this.

Meyssan traces imperial Britain’s zeal in playing divide-and-conquer in its colonial conquests right to into the current conflagration being examined here. Meyssan notes that the United Kingdom continues to back the “Revisionist Zionism” of Benjamin Netanyahu at the same times as the UK secretly backs Hamas, an extension of the Muslim Brotherhood. Since the early twentieth century imperial Britain has played a significant role on various sides of controversies involving the Muslim Brotherhood.

I continue to look to Meyssan for insights on the role of Jews, Zionism, Mossad and Israel in the governance and operation of the Islamic Republic of Iran. As Meyssan sees it, the Jewish role in both the regime of the Shah and in the Islamic Republic of Iran has deep roots in the integration of Jewish communities into Persia and into the Ottoman Empire. This history is well woven into the multiethnic dimension of Israel where many Iranian Jews settled especially after the Shaw was vanquished from power.

While the hierarchies of Zionist command and control played significant roles in the political economy of Iran during the time of Shah from 1953 and 1978, the following video indicates the excesses of Zionist power did not go unnoticed even by the country’s top puppet governor.

The strings were pulled by the same Israel-US partnership that has been front and centre in the conduct of the genocide and now in the aggressive war initiated against Iran.

As I explain in my essay, “From Decapitation to Obliteration,” it is very disturbing to take into account the implications of the deep infiltration of Israeli intelligence agents into the ranks of Iranian officialdom.

According to Meyssan, this infiltration has resulted in the assassination of “the leaders of Hezbollah one by one.”

This Israeli murder spree directed at the leadership of Hezbollah in Lebanon began with the martyrdom of Hassan Nasrallah on September 27, 2024. As some see it, the Israeli elimination of Nasrallah was instrumental in the extension of Israel’s subsequent decapitation campaign on Friday June the 13th into the top commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp.

While Yoav Gallant was still Defense Minister of Israel before being removed from the Office by Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s top soldier said the following of the removal of Hassan Nasrallah. In Gallant’s estimation, Nasrallah was “the most important targeted strike since the founding of the State of Israel.”

See this.

Gallant well understood that, in the eyes of many millions of people who identify with the mission of the Axis of Resistance, Nasrallah was widely perceived as the very personification of the highest order of holy warriors. He gained this reputation through tireless devotion to a higher calling.

This image of Nasrallah stands in stark contrast to the Luciferian aura of a fighting force engaged in an indiscriminate genocidal demolition together with a forced displacement of an entire population.

Yoav Gallant underlined Nasrallah’s importance as an inspirational figure in the resistance to the establishment of Greater Israel by the devotees of Revisionist Zionism, ie Likud extremism. In the short video below he explains the threat that Nasrallah embodied for Israel and its expansionary agenda.

Meyssan is blunt in his assertion that Iranian authorities bear some responsibility for being too lax about allowing Israel agents to infiltrate their ranks in ways that led to Hezbollah’s decapitation starting with the martyrdom of Nasrallah.

As I see it, the Iranian authorities owe their own people as well as the world at large some explanation of how this setback came to be. Is the underlying problem really being addressed or are only bandaid solutions being applied.

This matter has personal meaning for me. In the autumn of 2019, I was taken under the wing of the Iranian hosts of a New Horizon conference that took place in Lebanon. As part of our conference we travelled to the south of Lebanon exploring districts where almost everyone was either a member or a supporter of Hezbollah.

Spending time with these people and seeing their high level of commitment and discipline was a revelation. During our visit in the region we spent some time in a Hezbollah park that included cinematic resources explaining historic Hezbollah battles involving military bases in the tunnels of southern Lebanon.

The Hezbollah park included some of the underground facilities including displays of the early MAC computers employed by Hezbollah fighters.

Since publishing “From Decapitation to Obliteration” on 16 June I have seen on the Internet passing references to Iranian procedures to gather up in order to punish or eliminate those accused of being agents of Israel.

See this.

What I have not seen is proper analysis of the conditions that made it possible for the Iranian government to hire an Israeli-funded asset as the head of counterintelligence for a whole decade. Did this outcome result from highly expert deception by the spies or was there some kind of understanding between competing factions in Iran to live and let live? As I learned from Meyssan,

“In 2011, the head of Iranian counter-espionage in charge of combating Mossad infiltration who was appointed was… an Israeli agent. He remained in office until 2021 and now lives in Israel. He surrounded himself with a team of about twenty people who fled with him to Israel. They were the ones who organized the assassinations of the nuclear scientists and the theft of the archives exhibited by Benjamin Netanyahu.”

See this.

As I see it, this kind of episode is probably indicative of larger systemic problems rather than a one-of event. The idea that this Israeli spy was able to carry on for a full decade at the heart of the Iranian government, points towards systemic problems. This view of a large systemic problem certainly lines up well with the targeting by Mossad agents of the IRGC Commanders and nuclear scientists in the Friday the 13th invasion.

When I completed the essay, “From Decapitation to Obliteration,” I forwarded it to Dr. Kevin Barrett who lives in Morocco and knows Iran quite well. So far Dr. Barrett has declined to address the issue of Israeli infiltration, large or small, into the guts of Iranian governance.

It would be good to get some clarification from appropriate sources about recent revelations indicating that the Islamic Republic of Iran has an Israeli asset problem. There is need for more candour especially for those of us who incur Zionist recriminations for appearing on Iran’s English-language world broadcasting service, Press TV.

See this.

There is more to say in the wake of my first shot at the subject of Israel as an appropriate candidate for regime change. One way to think about regime change is that it is the desired outcome of globalists contemplating the fate of those countries that do not line up with the universalist policies of one-world governance. The implementation of the national sovereignty points away from globalist uniformity as sometimes advanced through the forced imposition of coercive regime change.

Ironically the government of Israel imposed on the United States a kind of regime change in the process of acquiring nuclear weapons. By arranging the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy because he was against Israel becoming a country with nuclear weapons, agents of Israel effective changed the future nature of the US regime.

When JFK was eliminated it opened the Office of the President to Lyndon Johnson who began a process of orienting United States to become Israel’s closest partner. The conditions were thereby created that have brought us to our current destination on the edge of the apocalypse.

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Dr. Anthony Hall is currently Professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada. He has been a teacher in the Canadian university system since 1982. Dr. Hall, has recently finished a big two-volume publishing project at McGill-Queen’s University Press entitled “The Bowl with One Spoon”. Visit his blog at Looking out at the World from Canada.

He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

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